1. Fort Carson Company
Operations Facility
Fort Carson, Colorado Springs
$67 million
Owner: U.S. Army Corps of Engineers
General Contractor: Mortenson Construction
Architect: Leo A Daly
Engineers: PBS&J
Start: Oct. 2006 Finish: Sept. 2008

The 400,000-sq-ft, six-building complex will be designed and constructed to LEED-silver standards. The buildings will provide space for 3,800 soldiers to work each day, many of whom will be relocated to Fort Carson through the Base Realignment and Closure process.

2. Division Headquarters
Command and Control Facility
Fort Carson, Colorado Springs
$38.6 million
Owner: U.S. Army Corps of Engineers
General Contractor: PCL Construction Services Inc.
Architect: U.S. Army Cops of Engineers
Start: March 2007 Finish: Sept. 2008

The Division Headquarters Command and Control Facility is a headquarters for the 4th Infantry Division at Fort Carson. The project consists of constructing a primary facility that incorporates administration, conference rooms, storage areas, break room, sensitive compartmented information facility, network operations center, briefing room, lobby and utility rooms.

3. Fort Carson Brigade
& Battalion Headquarters
Fort Carson, Colorado Springs
$35.4 million
Owner: U.S. Army Corps of Engineers
General Contractor: Hensel Phelps Construction Co.
Architect: RNL Design
Start: Dec. 2006 Finish: April 2008
This project is a design-build, multi-story facility.

4. Fort Carson Division
Company Operations Facility
Fort Carson, Colorado Springs
$34.2 million
Owner: U.S. Army Corps of Engineers
General Contractors: Hensel Phelps Construction Co.
Architect: Hayes Seay Mattern & Mattern
Engineer: HSMM
Start: June 2007 Finish: Nov. 2008

The project includes the design and construction of three facilities of approximately 224,000 sq ft to support 14 army companies. The project is designed to LEED standards and anti-terrorism and force-protection requirements.

5. ADD/Alter Communications Center
Buckley Air Force Base, Aurora
$11.2 million
Owner: U.S. Army Corps of Engineers
General Contractor: PCL Construction Services Inc.
Architect: Batheja & Associates Inc.
Engineers: Batheja & Associates Inc.
Start: Nov. 2006 Finish: Feb. 2008

This is a two-level, at-grade and below-grade, 50,000-sq-ft expansion of the existing communications building at Buckley AFB in Aurora. Construction included the renovation of 5,000 sq ft of the existing building and the tie-in area.

6. Weld County North
Jail Complex, Phase III
Greeley
$10.8 million
Owner: Weld County
General Contractor: Roche Constructors Inc
Architect: Bley Associates
Engineers: Kirkham Michael Consulting Engineers, The RMH Group, KBN Engineering
Start: Sept. 2006 Finish: Jan. 2008

This project is an 86,358-sq-ft addition that can house up to 374 inmates; unlike portions of the jail, the addition utilized modular prefabricated steel jail cells that were constructed in an offsite factory in Georgia. The scope of work also included site utility relocations, retaining wall construction and site grading.

7. Arapahoe County
Fleet Maintenance Facility
Bennett
$6 million
Owner: Arapahoe County
General Contractor: Hyder Construction Inc.
Architect: OZ Architecture
Start: Jan. 2008 Finish: Summer 2008

The facility is anchored by a 22,000-sq-ft maintenance facility for large fleet vehicles and encompasses offices and a training facility. This stand-alone facility is capable of future expansion.